US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Dec. 30 for "Mitigation of inductive discharge transients in printheads" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,818, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Mitigation of inductive discharge transients in printheads" was invented by Daniel F. Donato (Johnsburg, Ill.), Dwight D. Dipert (Barrington, Ill.), Kenneth V. Naegele (Vernon Hills, Ill.) and Ashok K. Charles (Lombard, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes: obtaining, at a controller of a device, a delay setting corresponding to an effector head configured to engage with the device, the effector head having (i) an array of effector elements, (ii) a first switch assembly controllable to deliver power to a first subset of the effect...